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...Every Saturday comes to us full of good reading-matter. A new serial, entitled "Far from the Madding Crowd," authorship unknown, bids fair to create a new sensation in the world of novels. Any one who may have had difficulty in comprehending the game of Ombre, in Pope's "Rape of the Lock," will find it elucidated at some length in the number of February 14. An editorial department devoted to literary criticism is ably conducted...
...recent lecture Professor Adams declared that the real conqueror of England was Hildebrand. England stood in the way of his cherished plan of bringing the German Empire into subjection to the Church. Her Archbishop of Canterbury even accepted his pall from the anti-pope favored by the Emperor. Therefore Hildebrand deliberately planned the conquest of the island. At the proper time he both protected his Norman tools in front, by excommunicating Harold, and guarded their rear by satisfactory assurances that the French should not aggress upon their native territory. His gain was to be twofold; the favor conferred would bind...
Farnsworth, W., 12 G. Pope...
...deep thoughts from their beer-mugs. The poets of this school are carefully excluded - in their wild moods - from the papers of the Eastern colleges; but in the free and unbounded West they flourish like so many green bay-trees, and rack their brains for metaphors which would set Pope's teeth on edge could he hear them; but they have at least the poetic spirit, and are apt to make fewer metrical mistakes than their more sensible and prosaic compeers. From their number, too, it is not unlikely that those very few will come who will be poets outside...
What is Shakespeare - the copyist of the minutest details of human experience - to me when I can revel in the imaginary haps and mishaps of gods and demi-gods? What the conciseness of Pope, the grandeur of Milton, the exquisite finish of Tennyson, the beauties and excellences of all modern genius, when I can find the semblance of these qualities in a language of two thousand years...